Florida Panthers visit White House after Stanley Cup victory

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00:00You hate standing here with all this power behind you,

00:04but I got power, too.

00:05It's called the United States military.

00:07I don't care.

00:12What a team.

00:12What a great job.

00:15What a great job.

00:15Please sit down.

00:16We'll have to spend a little time doing this,

00:19because I watched some of those games,

00:21and these guys know how to win,

00:23just like we knew how to win last week.

00:26We had a little victory.

00:26It was surgical, just like their victory.

00:28You're right, Duffy.

00:30It's an honor to welcome to the White House

00:34the two-time defending Stanley Cup champions,

00:37the Florida Panthers.

00:39Unbelievable team, unbelievable athletes, players.

00:42These men are responsible for the greatest feats

00:45in Panthers franchise history.

00:46And beyond that, I mean, beyond that,

00:49I mean, you compare them to some of the greatest hockey teams ever,

00:53including the first-ever President's Trophy,

00:56three straight final appearances,

00:58and the one that you didn't.

01:00So after a shortened off-season

01:05and a regular season plagued by injuries,

01:08the Florida Panthers entered the 20-25 playoffs

01:11with extraordinary pressure to defend the title.

01:14But they also had an amazing aura about them.

01:17It was called the aura of winning.

01:20There's something nice about it.

01:22And that's what they did.

01:25But not only did you live up to the sky-high expectations,

01:28you gave us perhaps the most dominant playoff run in NHL history.

01:33The Panthers scored 94 goals in the playoffs,

01:36more than any team in a generation.

01:39You won a record 10 times on the road.

01:42It was — nobody's ever done that one before.

01:45You led the finals for over 255 minutes,

01:49the most of any team in NHL history.

01:53And you denied Canada the Stanley Cup

01:55for the 32nd straight year by —

02:04I don't know.

02:05What do you think about that?

02:06What do you think about that, Matthew?

02:08We have a little competition with Canada.

02:11No, they're great people, though.

02:13They're great people.

02:14We're doing much better than Canada,

02:15but that's okay, right?

02:17We want them to do well,

02:18and they're going to do well.

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